Re: Another ingenious burglar this really sucks

[nick markowitz <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 30, 1:15=A0pm, mleuck <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sep 29, 9:50=A0pm, Jim Rojas <jro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > mleuck wrote:
> > > On Sep 27, 10:59 pm, Jim Rojas<jro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> =A0wrote:
> > >> Doug wrote:
> > >>> "Comrade technomaNge"<u...@xxxxxxx> =A0 =A0wrote in message
> > >>>news:i7rld1$e10$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>>> On 09/27/2010 08:07 PM, Jim wrote:
> > >>>>> On Sep 27, 5:53 pm, nick markowitz<nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> =A0 =A0 =
wrote:
> > >>>>>>http://consumerist.com/2010/09/thieves-suck-money-from-supermarke=
t-sa...
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> > >>>>> Four years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> > >>>>> Why .....why ....... how stupid can they be? =A0Jeeeeze, you'd th=
ink
> > >>>>> they were French, or something.
>
> > >>>> Ya know what chafes my ass?
> > >>>> As bad an opinion as I have of the French, they have nuclear power
> > >>>> plants and haven't blown themselves up yet.
>
> > >>>> But the greatest country on Earth (that's us) can't have more
> > >>>> than a token nuclear power presence due to tree hugging regulation=
s!
>
> > >>>> technomaNge
> > >>>> --
>
> > >>> I think the US generates about 20% of its electricity from nuclear =
power,
> > >>> while it may pale in comparison to France's 75%, I'm not sure I wou=
ld call
> > >>> it a "token presence"
>
> > >>> Doug
>
> > >> The French are smart enough to recycle and reuse spent fuel rods, wh=
ile
> > >> we here in the good ole USA stand around with our fingers up our ass=
es
> > >> trying to find underground caverns to bury it all in...
>
> > >> I could never understand why we even use nuclear power. Geothermal
> > >> accomplishes same exact results without the dangerous radiation.
>
> > >> Jim Rojas
> > >> Technical Manuals Online!http://www.tech-man.com
> > >> 8002 Cornwall Lane
> > >> Tampa, FL 33615-4604
> > >> 813-884-6335
>
> > > Well that's an easy answer, you can't get enough geothermal to make u=
p
> > > the difference, same thing goes with wind and solar.
>
> > Countries like Greenland & Nova Scotia run entirely on Geothermal
> > energy. We can do it, we just need all the oil to get used up to take
> > away the excuse why not to.
>
> > If you look at the history of this country, this is always the case. We
> > seem to have a need to get ourselves out of a pending disaster before
> > anything really changes.
>
> > Brazil no longer uses crude oil to run the majority of their vehicles.
> > They use ethanol, which they grow crops and process themselves. Ethanol
> > can be made from sugar crops, corn, switchgrass, as well as other
> > abundant biomass. The excuses are endless, but the crisis is real.
>
> > Brazil has been making ethanol since the 1970's gas shortage...some
> > governments actually learn from history. Other governments are doomed t=
o
> > repeat their mistakes over, and over again...until it takes a national
> > crisis to wake them up...
>
> > Jim Rojas
> > Technical Manuals Online!http://www.tech-man.com
> > 8002 Cornwall Lane
> > Tampa, FL 33615-4604
> > 813-884-6335
>
> We use a lot more energy than Greenland and Nova Scotia, there isn't
> enough Geothermal available.
>
> Ethanol is a heavily subsidized industry, if the government doesn't
> subsidize it then it collapses, also its not a big deal making it but
> what is a big deal is using more energy to make it than it produces.
> Also because of the crops used to make it our food bills are higher
>
> Brazil is now a huge oil producer and while they made a major switch
> to ethanol they use sugar beets which doesn't require a lot of energy
> which isn't possible for us they still use a lot of oil. Their ethanol
> industry also couldn't exist without being heavily subsidized by the
> Brazilian government, now I may be in the minority on this but I'd
> rather our government butt out since they are currently destroying the
> Ethanol industry.
>
> Fact is you can't make enough energy out of alternative supplies to
> power even a fraction of the country, there isn't enough crops, grass
> etc for Ethanol, not enough land space =A0and contrary to what the
> enviros tell everyone oil isn't going to run out for a long long
> time.
>
> In Texas they are drilling into a massive deposit of natural gas
> around the Dallas area and people end up complaining about noise,
> local government wants to slow it down with even more taxes and
> regulation and the environmental groups want it stopped altogether
> claiming it creates earthquakes (yes really), even if they started on
> your geothermal fantasy it would be stopped rather quickly by
> bureaucracy..
>
> Texas has the largest windmill farms in the country, even that's a
> nightmare with problems like suitable land, power transmission,
> extremely expensive, people complain about the looks of the things,
> low frequency noise that apparently makes people and animals living
> nearby sick and the fact that at best they can run at less than 10%
> efficiency.
>
> I don't know why you go off on these "the sky is falling" rants James,
> if you were sincere on what you say then by all means get an alcohol
> conversion kit in your car, create your own ethanol, power your house
> completely by alternative sources such as solar cells or windmills
> then come here and tell us what we should do, you won't because you'd
> quickly find out how expensive, inconvenient and impractical it is to
> do change to other power sources which is why nobody has and won't in
> the near future
>
> The "crisis" you talk about could have been avoided decades ago with
> nuclear energy but noooooooooooooooooooooo

We need to do more with hydro power and we are not.